Saturday, July 15, 2017

After CNN was forced to retract yet another fake news story about
“Russian collusion” it did what all Leftists do when caught in a lie:
It played “victim.” It did so by claiming that President Trump’s
calling out of the fake story, which CNN now admits was a fake, was an
attack on freedom of speech in America. So, according to CNN,
publishing fake “news” is free speech, while pointing out the truth is
an attack on free speech.

To hammer home the point that it, CNN, is the nation’s protector of
free speech, the network attempted to taunt the president on the Fourth
of July by tweeting an inscription that is chiseled into a wall at the
“Newseum” in Washington, D.C. They apparently thought that this would
be a death blow to the president, for the quote was from the god of the
state, Abe Lincoln. “Let the people know the facts, and the country
will be safe,” Abe supposedly said. Yes, just let them “know” that
Vladimir Putin personally hypnotized Donald Trump, turning him into a
Manchurian candidate, and then rigged all the election machinery in the
United States to assure his election. They will then be “safe” to know
that Hillary Clinton is their real president.
Unfortunately for CNN, the Lincoln quote is more fake news because
the quote itself is a fake, as proven by several researchers and
reported by The Federalist Website.

A member of the House Oversight Committee said Saturday that he wants
former senior Obama administration official Ben Rhodes to testify on
Capitol Hill.

Speaking to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on MSNBC, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) addressed the leaks that have dogged the Trump administration since January.

"If you
look at some of the leaks that have come out, for example, when the
president’s having a conversation with a foreign leader, there may be a
memo that’s created, distributed to the National Security Council. The
next thing you know, it’s on the front page of the paper," DeSantis
said.

"Look, there’s only so many places that would come from. And
the Obama holdover working with Rhodes, that’s a place we’ve been
encouraged to look," added DeSantis, who chairs the panel's national
security subcommittee.

After Air Force One landed at Newark Liberty International Airport,
the president’s motorcade headed for Bedminster and drove through the
heart of Trump National, past a crowd of fans near the putting green and
the clubhouse. Trump could be seen waving out the window as
the motorcade rolled by, then headed for his home on the property, which
sits adjacent to the 15th hole.

Less than two hours later, Trump made the short trek to the skybox that’s
been built behind the 16th tee, receiving cheers and applause along the
way. He occasionally wandered toward the box’s windows to point and
wave to fans, while the Secret Service and USGA officials handled crowd
control outside the box.

USGA officials repeatedly asked the crowd to keep quiet in order to
avoid disrupting play, which was taking place just yards away.

He doesn’t remember waking up that
morning, or helping prepare breakfast for his three young children, or
kissing his wife Sarabeth goodbye, or any of the meetings he had with
landscape design clients. He doesn’t remember driving to the Panera
Bread in Cotswold Village. He doesn’t remember going to his favorite
booth in the back, where he regularly sat for hours doing work on his
laptop.
He doesn’t remember crumpling to the floor at about quarter past 4, his heart gone completely, terrifyingly still.

He doesn’t remember any of the many,
many things that happened next. But in the two and a half weeks since,
he’s come to understand this: If a single one of those things “didn’t
happen correctly,” he says, “it could have gone differently pretty
quickly.”

The electoral college system erected by the Founders worked best when limited to two candidates, but became what was described as a “fearful danger” when multiple candidates emerged in 1860. New Yorker Samuel Tilden’s dark prophesy of a purely sectional candidate becoming president was realized in 1860; when the Gulf States began to go out of the Union he stated that “The situation was unprecedented, and it is worse than idle, it is presumptuous, to rail at [President James] Buchanan for his failure to act.” The latter is scapegoated for failure, though the Founder’s failed to foresee such a calamity. Tilden lost the 1876 presidential race through Reconstruction election fraud in several Southern States.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

A Fearful Danger and Political Menace in 1860

“The election of Abraham Lincoln has been studied from every angle. It is well to disregard the providential aspect of the outcome. Seventeen years ago, Mary Scrugham made a careful examination of the returns. Her “Peaceable Americans of 1860-1861” shows how ridiculously the machinery of the electoral college misrepresented American opinion in this critical campaign.

To question the constitutionality of Lincoln’s election is absurd, but to criticize the system by which one of four candidates could carry the electoral college decisively with a large third of the popular vote is pertinent.

At the first two meetings of the electoral college, Washington was chosen without contest. Thereafter, as everyone knows, the growth of parties put an end to the deliberative character of the body, for each political organization put up its own list of electors in every State – where the legislatures did not choose them. Reporting the popular result became automatic.

Polling not a vote in almost one-third of the States, obtaining not a single elector from the South, and receiving a noticeable minority of the popular suffrage, a sectional candidate was chosen President of the United States – and all this according to the Constitution. What may happen in the future can only be imagined – should this dangerous system survive.

Miss Scrugham’s analysis of the election of 1860 should open our eyes. Lincoln had no votes in ten States of the Union; while [Vice President John] Breckinridge received more than 6,000 in Maine, 2,000 in Vermont, and 14,000 in Connecticut. According to the “acid test of geographical membership,” the Republican was the only “out and out sectional party.”

Some accused the Southern Democrats of splitting their party for the sake of forcing the election of Lincoln and thus finding a compelling excuse for secession.

If the entire opposition to Lincoln, however, had been united on one candidate, the electoral college would still have given him the presidency “regardless of the fact that popular vote against him was a million more than that for him.”

In 1860, then, according to the returns, it would have been impossible for a majority of the American people to choose a president even if they had been united on a single hypothetical candidate.

In the face of the vote which both [Stephen] Douglas and [John] Bell received in the Southern States, “it is folly to assert,” continues Miss Scrugham, that the South was “aggressively pro-slavery and bent on maintaining slavery” even at the cost of the Union.”

[New York Governor Samuel] Tilden saw the fearful danger of the victory of Lincoln before it had occurred. Laying his finger on the political menace of any man’s being made President without one electoral vote from the South, he urged his fellow citizens to defeat [Lincoln] by any means possible.”

This is a young man’s book. To have anything more to say about a book
you did fifty odd years ago brings you hard up against the matter of
time. The young author shows a familiar visage, as enigmatic as the
portrait of a great-grandfather “struck” in his youth, gazing into the
close air of the parlor. You know you are kin, but that youth
belongs to the ancestors. Therefore to redo or revise in any real sense
would mean to make another book. Fifty years can change more than the
use and control of language. The world may go on for a thousand years
and, outwardly at least, be always the same. Then something appears out
of nowhere, so sudden does it seem, and a shattering takes place; as for
example when the stirrup was introduced into Russia by the Sarmations
riding out of Siberia. They stopped with the conquest of Russia, but the
stirrup did not stop there. The Goths took it into Rome. It ended the
stalemate between the mounted archers of Parthia and the Roman legion.
It had its long history in Europe. It came to an end as an instrument of
military power about a hundred years ago in Alabama.

Organizers of the "Women's March" and Michael Bloomberg's gun control
lobbying group Everytown are participating in an anti-National Rifle
Association rally today. They are currently walking from Fairfax,
Virginia to Washington D.C. as part of the resistance movement. Their
main arguments?

The Trump administration has told the Supreme Court
that a lower court ruling earlier this week altering an executive order
on immigration would bring thousands more refugees into the county and
requires the justices’ “immediate intervention,” according to filing
documents obtained early Saturday by Fox News.

In a victory for the
administration, the Supreme Court late last month lifted key components
of an injunction against President Trump's temporary travel ban on
refugees and visitors from six mostly-Muslim countries.

The court reinstated much of the administration’s policy and promised to hear full arguments as early as this fall.

Just because former secretary of state and failed Democrat
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton didn’t win the 2016 election,
that doesn’t mean that all of the scandalous activity that surrounded
her and her closest associates will just go away or disappear.

Judicial Watch announced in a news release
Friday that it had just published newly found documents from the
non-governmental email account used by Huma Abedin, deputy chief of
staff and all-around right-hand to Clinton before, during and after her
stint at the State Department.

Some 448 pages of heavily redacted government documents and email chains were obtained by Judicial Watch as part of the continuation of a 2015 lawsuit
filed against the State Department by the conservative watchdog group
that demanded “All emails of official State Department business received
or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1,
2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-‘state.gov’ email address.”

The FBI and U.S. Attorney in
Vermont are investigating Jane O’Meara Sanders for her role in a failed
2010, $10 million college land deal that she orchestrated during her
seven-year stint as president of Burlington College in Vermont.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.